If you love art and chocolate then Madrid is the city you want to visit. The combination of the two is perfect, because when you max out on the art you can recharge with a coffee or a steaming cup of thick chocolate. We are really lucky with our timing in Madrid because the Prado has Renoir and Rubens exhibitions on right now. Both are ...
November 6, 2010We took the night train to Madrid. We opted for the cheaper bed in a room of six. This means that six people are stacked three deep and two wide in a six foot by eight foot room. There is not enough room to sit up on any of the bunks. I was on the third level accessed by a scary ladder that ...
Hostal Forum, TaragonaOk life is pretty grand here in Taragona. My back is feeling good I'm relaxing drinking Rioja wine after a swim in the ocean. It's not a complete surprise to come to a Spanish city I've never hear of, on the coast and find lovely beaches. We had not expected, however, to encounter a city full of Roman and Medieval ruins. The Roman ...
Just received a heart-warming letter from our cat. Thought I would share it with everyone. asedfjgksdjfgoiclepgmdflejrgojavlma;jkgjgoerlew[reofdgmfheirhuth...htuR iH oops, I mean Hi Ruth,This whole typing thing is hard. Don's asleep at the key board so I thought I would take over, otherwise you will probably never get a response from the lazy sleeping bugger. Don't get me wrong, he treats me well, but there just seems ...
Well last night we sold both bikes to the first woman I asked in Cadaques. Well, sold is an over statement, let's just say the purchasers were very happy with the deal. Our next stop was the post office where we mailed about seven kilos of bike gear maps and books to our apartment in Barcelona. That sounded good, let me say it again, our ...
Cadaques Salvador Dali lived the bulk of his adult life in a house on the sea just outside Cadaques. The house was originally a number of fishing huts which Dali and his wife Gala transformed into surreal splendor. While there were few of his paintings on exhibit the collections of decorations, installations and taxidermist animals in odd arrangements was fascinating. Oh if the walls could ...
Portbou to Cadaques 30km with at least 3 Malahats!Ok today was a brutal but stunningly beautiful. We are now in Dali's back yard and we hope to visit his house tomorrow. Cadaques is a lovely fishing village that has exploded into an art colony turned resort. So now we are ready to sell the bikes. So if there is anyone out there who wants a ...
Collioure to Port Bou. 25kmRooms, Port BouToday we rode over the end of the Pyrenees and down into Port Bou, the first town on the Spanish side. The twisty road along the coast was tough but beautiful. Now we are in serious linguistic trouble, however, trying to switch into Spanish. Renting a room was a challenge. I seem to be going from French to English ...
Narbonne to Collioure by trainHotel FrigateThis is an extraordinary town! I wouldn't want to come within a mile of here in the summer because even now it is just crawling with tourists, but for good reason. Mom you would love it and want to stay for months! It is far more Catalan than French here and we are getting very close to the border. Right ...
Beziers to Narbone 30kmWe left too early today. It was a cold but beautiful ride along the Canal de Midi. My hands, even in gloves, took most of the ride to warm up. It was poor timing because by afternoon it was sunny and 18 degrees.Just out of Beziers we passed a section of nine locks on the Canal raising the water level up a ...